On Wednesday 08 January 2003 05:49 am, viki p wrote:
Logically arriving at conclusion which can prevent this from happening
Sounds like a great idea.
1 for all the common people the words used like kernel, security, update kernel, access to file system, hacking, worms and troajans Are like out of the world. They don't look for all this when they go and buy a pc for them self. What they look for is how easy it is to use in daily life without much knowledge of pc or operating system. DO WE have this in Linux and I say BIG NO this is not the case.
I say an even BIGGER YES. Just pick up RH 8 and you will know what I am talking about. Linux as an operating system has, IMO, surpassed the ease of use of Windows. The biggest factor that prevents Linux from taking control of the desktop market is the fact that almost everybody is so used to the Microsoft Windows way of doing things that other approaches look frightening to them. To such people "kernel" sounds scary but "virus" sounds routine. So if you were to give a computer newbie a copy of RH 8 and Windows XP and ask him to install it and use it by himself, while asking questions when necessary, I think the Red Hat install would be far easier for the newbie. Infact, there was an article sometime back on Newsforge where one sys-admin actually did that and reached the same conclusions as I suggested.
One of the biggest money makers in that time was on the same track at that time. You know it and I don't want to name it.
Actually, I dont. I was only 3 years old 15 years back :).
Today if some company is investing "n" billion dollars in R&D of Linux do you think that work will remain open source? NO I don't think so it will become their technology and they will sell it to recover as well as make n+1 out of n so this is business and every thing is fair as long as you can make money.
uh, huh? Take a look at IBM and its international push for Linux and Open Source. http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/
Today MS is ruling the business as they want. this is because they don't have competitor to stop them doing this.
Which makes Microsoft a monopoly, and therefore BAD. Infact its easy to prove with some basic Economics knowledge that societal benefit goes down if an industry is monopolized. Therefore, if one wishes to have a society driven by free markets, and thus Capitalism, it would be in the best interest of the country to not have a monopoly.
But all are wasting their time in fighting MS in legal battle and not investing their time and money in developing something which can fight in market with all the needed things at ground level.
Those people are fighting for the benefit of society, and for their rights. Anti-trust acts make tying of products illegal and MS does exactly that by tying IE with Windows. Therefore, these people are fighting for their rights, which, IMO, is NOT a waste of time.
Today if MS is making money then they are also providing fruit to lots of people just go in market and see how many developer are really working on open source/other project and how many are working on MS platform you will come to know why MS is more successful in business than others. I know their not giving chance to other products to prove but at the end if you or I own Microsoft would have been done the same things what they are doing.
Hmm. Very interesting. I would really love to know if there are some statistics which provide an accurate breakdown of developers working in OSS and Closed SS. But i doubt such stats exist. :(
I am not at all a person who is pushing MS but rather I am a person who tries to understand the phenomena. 70% of the people in our LUG member must be using MS as a prime factor do they can assure you to migrate to Linux in next 3 month and I say they can not because there are lot of supporting application running which needs to be migrated on linux so guys this is not that easy.
I cant speak for the rest of LUG. But I for one use Windows less than 1 day in a month. I do all my work in Linux. Be it scientific computation, programming, cd burning, mp3 playing or watching movies ;) The only occasion I use Windows is when i reboot after about 20 days and GRUB pops up with an option saying "WindowsXP". At such times, I feel sympathetic for MS and boot into Windows only to boot out of it within an hour. :P
Do not take me other way I am not a person who sticks to one particular standard I am working on all the platforms that is Sun-Solaris, HP-UX, SCO-Unix, FreeBSD, AIX, Linux and MS. But our industry is a customer driven, so out 10 projects I am doing 7 are on MS platform.
Glad to hear that. The LUG is always open for a good debate, and as long as the person is making (or sincerely trying to make) some valid points, he/she will be most welcome.